Oldest World Tour teams
The men's UCI World Tour features teams from all over the world. But which teams are currently already active for the longest time in cycling? What are the brands that will be related to cycling for many decades in the future? In this post I give a short summary. For this article, I've decided to use the moment that that main sponsor entered as start date. So UAE Emirates that has a complete different identity from the old Lampre team, starts in 2017 for examples. There are also some exceptions that I motivate below the teamslist.
Teams + foundation
Lotto - Soudal - 1985
Jumbo - Visma* - 1996
Cofidis - 1997
Groupama - FDJ - 1997
AG2R La Mondiale - 2000
CCC Team - 2000
Deceuninck - Quickstep 2003
Astana Pro Team - 2005
Education First Pro Cycling 2007*
Team Ineos - 2010*
Trek - Segafredo - 2010*
Movistar - 2011
Team Sunweb - 2012**
Mitchelton - Scott 2012*
Bora - Hansgrohe - 2015
Israel - Startup Nation - 2015
Dimension Data - 2016
Bahrein - McLaren - 2017
UAE - Team Emirates - 2017
Motivations for exceptions
* I've decided to take the overall start date of these teams because they kept the same 'identity' as from when they are founded. They have the same transfer policy, in general the same nationalities, the same races as goals,...
** I've chose 2012 for Sunweb because this was the year that the team made a big transformation. It wasn't a team of outsiders like Skil - Shimano anymore but it became a team with a strong policy and a much more dominant way of racing then before. An 'identity't that they still have now.
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